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THE LONDON JOURNALS. DA 11.1 i. Estrada from the Morning Papers, Jan. 5,1820. [NeW The President's Message which appeared yes terdy morning in the' New Amer , reduced a strong impression on the . Conamercial orld. Expectation had been on tiptoe to re ceive the first official declaration of gitincy Adams's sentiments as President ; it wasearnest lw hoped that they would be pacific, and it was of course wished that they might prove towards fatvitt .Britain liberal ,and friendly. We rejoice Ikakjt. fell, to our lot to be the first to announce the. entire fulfilment ef these hopes and wishes. The_ document of which we gave both a verba , iith copy and a short abstract, was universally billed es anspicious, and the effect of its pub. litation was soon visible in the firmness which it gave to the Funds. One set of persons alone were deeply vexed and mor tified at the appearance of this important document—the individuals who had been writing, Sod talking, and betting down the Funds—the JElears.of the Press and of the Exchange, For some time past they have smarted and writhed under the expression of public indignation. They consoled themselves with the benevolent hope that the storm had not wholly passed over. 64 The difficulties in the money market," said they,."nre not at an end, neither ought they to ate !!"---" the storm has neither been long enough, nor violent enough"! ! ? indeed ! And how so ? Why, forsooth, it has riot sufficiently shaken and exposed the rotten parts." It does really seem . , extraordinary, that any pub lic' writer should so unblushingly avow a ma lignant pleasure in contemplating ' ruin and bankruptcy---that he should call for more of these sad misfortunes—more food for his male. volence! Lint so it is: and in order, if possible, to,accomplish his wishes, he tries every day some new mode of exciting alarm. Last week it was ts vast deficiency in the Revenue—now it is a for Ced nbandonment of the Sinking Fund. We are told that " a report is in circulation that it will' in the present quarter be reduced to one million per that' we (the wonder ful and mysterious we) incline to an opinion that erevermnent will break up the whole arrange ment,' Our answer to all these croakings is short—they are founded either in malice or in ignorance. The same credit is due to them as was due to the fabricated conversation be tween the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Governor of the Batik. They come from the same persons who pretended to be in the secrets of Government and the Bank—to know that the Bonk had limited its discounts when it was augmenting them most liberally— and to know that 'Ministers had drawn up an Order in Council for the suspension of cash pay. meats, when no such order was even content. plitted. With regard to the state of the Revenue, a few hours will set that matter quite at rest.— We shall not pretend to anticipate details, but We are confident that the account we shall have to give of the financial situation of the country will be perfectly satisfactory. As to the Sinking Fund, the story of its intended abandonment is a pure &tint). [BRITISH ' PRESS.] The Times, whether it touches on the topic of Sank Notes--or country bankers—or paper cur• rency—or the landed interest, endeavours to make each in its turn the means of popular escitemement and public disaffection. We are told, in its columes of yesterday—by way of winding up a roost unjustifiable and coarse attack ou. Sir Thos. Lethbridge,that—" What the nation plots for is a sensible fall of price ; 13read must be had cheap ; Rents Mtlit he sacrificed to the lives of the people. It is monstrous impudence to talk about the ruin of the Farmers from a lowering kr the price of produce." The Times, no doubt, imagines that to declaim in favour of cheap bread is to take the popular side; and that, however ignoraotly it truly talk upon the subject, It it does but take this ,ide, it will not be pressed to support its assertion by proof, or to give a reason for Its opinions. " Bread must he had cheap." What ! whether corn be scarce - or Mno. dent ? Whether it shall please the great Disposer of the seasons to send a plentiful or scanty hur vest,? It must, no doubt, be the wish of every man that bread should be cheap ; the lower its price is tlie better, provided always that it is a price at which the farmer cnn realize a profit.— bi s kt, uithout regard, to this, that " bread inns( be bad ch,ap" is to bold the language, not of a-rational man, hut of an incendiary--not of a friend to the working classes, but of their worst enemy, who would uproot the founda. liofl9 of all property, and involve the rich and the poor in the common ruin. Has the Times Joaftnalist ever asked himself, in the midst of all Ws dishonest and delusive canting about cheap bread—has be ever asked himself—What are manufacturing interests to do, if the Landlords and Tenants have no 'unpins to lay out with them for their commedities.? Whnt is meant by this public: declaration, that " lteuts must be socrificed to the lives of the people P' What is tires but the langulge of Revolution ? The dreadful crisis in which the lives of the people could demand such a sacrifice, must be a crisis, they tremendous necessities of which cut all the ties of Covnrntnent asunder, and break down the barriers of property. Just as well might the Mlles strike out. the word Rents, and say - the Funds must be sacrificed to the lives of the people. The Annuitant, the Capitalist, the public Fonctionnry, if the lives of the people are represented as calling for their sacrifice—what can b e urged their behalf which the landlord bas not (0 plead f the rents of the latter are to be taken from him, on what ground can the o wner of property of any kind rest his claim of *exemption ? Push, these consequences to their and, mid see to what they lead ! If, by the in fernal agency of a n y faction, or of any patty, oils language of the Times is to be held in every ale-house in the kingtipm, the convulsion which of late this kingdoin has felt will be as nothing to what ere long it will feel. " The farmers," it is added, want nothing better than low► prices, if they can but get their lands at , proportionate rents." But if this journalist were'at all informettispou a subject: on which he delivers himself with so much. inguorent presumption, he would know that the price of agricultural prodnce may be- 7 - and at times has been—so low, that the landlords could obtain no rent The Rent is comparatively a minotconsideration to the farmer; his labour must yield a living profit, after deducting poor rates, tithes, taxes, imposts of every kind, the wages of labour, and all the charges and outgo. ings of every deicription—his corn must afford him a remunerating price. After all these de ductions are made, if it does not, be most abandon the tillage of a soil which no longer repays his labour. It is easy for the Times, and those who echo it, to insist that " bread must he had cheap." But how, we would ask, would they force the workmen in husbandry, any more than the workmen of any other class, to labour with out any adequate remuneration ? As well might we exclaim of any—nay, of every one -- of our manufactures—it Must be had. cheap. But we trust. we have said enough to induce those who may be "led astray by such language to look steadily before them, lest a ti►rie should come when it may be too late to look back. [MORNINU 'posT.] French Paper, to the 3d inst. and the Eloile of Tuesday reached us list night by express. From the latter we have extracted many fresh parti culars and assertions respecting the death of . Alexander, which will be found preceding cOluMn. With regard to the succession to the throne, nothing authentic has yet appeared.— The Dodo re-asserts its former statement, that Constantine had been proclaimed Emperor at Moscow as well as at St. Petersburgh ; but in the very same passage it admits that his abdi cation was the subject of conversation in the saloons of the latter capital, and contends 44 that it was mot conditional, as some Papers pretended." From this no other inference can be drawn except that there really had been a renunciation of an unconditional nature on the part of Constantine, which might have taken place after he had been fairly put in possession of the imperial dignity. There is no other way of explaining the apparent contradictions of the Journals, or of reconciling the statements of the Doile with the confident assertion of the Journal des Debals, " that intelligence of the accession of the Emperor Nicholas to the throne of all the ltussias, had been received officially in Paris." The Drapeuu Blanc indeed goes still farther, and not only asserts the fact of the abdication, but adds, as a proof " of the extraordinary energy of Constantine's soul," that lie was likely to become a monk !---tr most singular proof certainly of mental vigour. These Papers also contain some details of military operations in Greece, where nothing of importance had lately taken place. Ibrahim Paella is said to have been invest ed with the whole command of the war, and to be preparing to try his skill against Missolonghi, where, we trust, he will not prove more successful than he did at Napoli dl Romania. I f lie be really appointed Commander-in-Chief, jealousy and differences will undoubtedly arise between him and Red scliid Pectin, which cannot fail to prove advan. tageous to the cause of Greece. Our new Ambas. Isailor to the Porte had arrived at Corfu, where the illness of his Lady, we regret to find, pre. vented the usual salutes being fired. [THE TIMES.] We feel confirmed, from certain respectable information that we have received, in the accu racy of our statement that a commercial Treaty with France, deemed favourable by those who are more particularly acquainted with its tenour, may be concluded before the meeting of Perna. meat. We haVe also equal reason for believin g that the conditions of the Treaty between this Country and the Brazils, as concluded by Sir Charles Stuart, falls so far short of the expecte dons of Ministersond the pretensions of the min try, that the Cabinet have peremptorily rejected the instrument which has been transmitted for their approval. The commercial project generally, upon which so much of our expanding greatness depends, and the arrangements with respect to the slave trade, form the subjects of dissatisfac tion. As the latter constitutes an essential branch of the Brazilian . commerce; seine difficulties might be expected io cancludiog 'a treaty conso- . mint with the principl es o f h uman i ty. A s to the commercial treaty, the negociator had the field open, and perhaps a guide across it, in the intelligence which he might obtain respecting the terms on which so shrewd a people as the Ame ricans had arranged the affair. The principal condition between Portugal :Ind the Brazils is said to be, that the latter Power takes upon theM the Portuguese Loan negociated in Eng land, and advances an additional sum besides ; for tke latter of w filch purposes we suspect that a Sufficient portion of the late Brazilian Loan re maini in this country. [THE PUBLIC LEOGUIt.j We have received the Paris Papers of Monday, and the Etoile dated Tuesday. They are chiefly occupied with the controversy respecting the sue. cession to the ItUiSilln throne ; but whilst the abdication of Constantine is insisted upon us stren: uously as ever en one side, the contradiction is given in a less peremptory tone on the other. As yet wP see no reason to change our own opinion on the subject, as we can see no reason for further mys. lery, If there be any truth in the statement. Had Constantine, ks stated, freely renounced his right to the throne in favour of his brother, the fact would, in all probability, be. fully ascertained ' before now, as there could be no motive, al least ' ( lint we can discover, for concealment. The re. gular order of succession would not be disturbed, and therefore the most timid mind could See in the proceeding tie danger to the national tran quillity. Bat, If we are wrong, we are not at least under error in rejecting that part of the report, which says that the abdi cation has been the voluntary act of Con. storable. If there be any uncertainty on the subjetf, it arises from some arrangement of the late Emperor, by which he wished to interrupt the regular Order of Succession ; in which case, we have no doubt but Constantine would try to set it aside by the sword. In the mean time, the Directing Senate at St. Petersburgh has ordered that Prince to be proclaimed in every part of the Empire with the customary formalities— an order wholly inconsistent, in our opinion, with the idea, that Alexander has left a testamen. tarp disposition of a different kind. It ap pears, too, that Constantine has been proclaimed at Moscow ; anti it will be found, or we are greatly mistaken, that the rumour of his ab dication has its, origin solely in the wishes of those, who see in his succession the seeds of po litical troubles. [MORNINce HERALD.] it is reported, that during the late run upon the Banking-houses at Cambridge, some of the Heads of Colleges actually took so warm and kind an interest in the concerns of one establish ment, as to have attended behind the counter ; but whether for the purpose of dealing out the money in payment of the Banker's notes, or to deter persons by their presence from applying for the payment of them, does not appear. Some curious anecdotes are afloat upon the Occasion, which, if the dulness incident to mathematical research has not driven every thing like wit from the shades of Academus, will, we should think, he handed down to posterity with the load of other nonsense with which learued . triflers, or triflers without learning, have adorned the Ana of their Alma Mater.— There are people, however, uncharitable enough to think, that this was not a very fit or apostolical occupation for these eminent divines to have been engaged in ; and that though as money-changers they were not actually in the Nemple, yet that they had duties connected with it which they would have been better employed in fulfilling.— Besides, the querulous people we allude to reason thus :—" The Clergy," say they, 44 have a manifest interest in supporting the paper sys tem ; in the Colleges it keeps up the corn-rents, and elsewhere the tithes; neither of which would probably long survive any serious convulsion in the country." Be this as it may, there surely might be laymen enough found to perform the offices of bankers' clerks, without having recourse to a species of assistance, the unseemliness of which is too apparent for any motive to justify. I:MORNING CHRONICIA.I The American Lawyers appear to he perfect cormorants in the article of Repinfs. There is a paper in the last number of the North American Review, in which the writer boasts, that in addi tion to their own Reports, which are pretty con siderable, we guess, the American Lawyers make use of the English Reports, not as authorities, but as examples ; and he reproaches our Lawyers with not reading and quoting their Reports in like manner in the Courts of Justice, imputing this omission to prejudice. Alas ! the worthy Reviewer little imagines the number of Reports with which the English Lawyer is overwhelmed---a number we are afraid to quote*, or if he be aware of the fact, and would recommend, in addition to this mass, the reports of all the decisions of the principal Courts of the United States, he must 1w a person of singular ideas of application indeed, and no one of the robe here will pretend to compete with him in reading. That the Americans are generally insa tiable of reports we must infer front this asser tion :—" We should rejoice to (it'd English law books in our Courts of Justice, as we do to see English machinery in our manufactories." The best thing they could do with the books when they get them would be to burn theta to light the fires of their manufactories., . It is amusing enough to find nearly the whole of the article We are noticing filled with praises of what tha writer calls the Common Law transplanted front England ; this name was in use here till Mr. Bentham exploded the fallacy, and gave the thing the proper description of the Judge-made Law. Nevertheless, we believe that there are, even now, a few people among us who talk of the Common Law as of a thing on which a man may lay his finger. Our North Ame rican Reviewer is a vehement admirer of this Common Law, and, by force Of a Meth plior, gives it a decided advantage over a code of laws. 66 A. code of laws," says he, "is a coat of mail, which, however perfectly made, admits of but few movements, and can fit hut one person, and tho for a short period ; while the Common Law is an elastic garment, which adapts itself to every size, and every variety of 'notion." What a thing is a metaphor ! Thus, even thus, is the question between the written law and the Judge's law disposed of. For our parts, we dont greatly admire those elastic garments which adapt them selves to every size and every variety of motion, for the Judges, not the judged, have the comfort and advantage of their elasticity. No matter what sort of coat a Code is like, it is no bad thing provided it he well. rnade. " A practising Lawyer in England must take in at least four volumes of Reports a yLar„ one for each of the fonfhigh Courts. if he only take in one volume then from each of the' four-and twenty'States of the Union, he will, in process of time, make, -we recken, " a pretty considerable imitation particular" addi tion to his library, CASTOU castor oil plant (palma christi) is indigenous to Southern Africa, and is found fir abundance in most parts of this colony. It may be useful to some persons in remote situations to know, that the safe and valuable medicine which this plant produces is readily obtained by the following simple process ; —The ripe seeds ,are cleared from the husks ' well stamped in a mortar, and then b o il e d i n water till the nil rises to the surface. This is carefully skimmed otT; but as some water will be still mixed with the oil, it is necessary to boil, it over , again in an iron pot, till the water be thoroughly expelled, by evaporation. This method of o b ta i n . ins castor o il i s practised with perfect success by the Moravian Missionaries at Gusolenthali who also use indiscriminately the seeds of the different varieties of the plant found in that vicinity, without perceiving any difference in the quality of the 0i1...—. (South Africeti Advertiser.) FIRE.—The starch mills nod manufactory of Mr. KOMPSOW, situated at Hampton, were this mailing, about four o'clock, debtroyed by fire, supposed to have originated in one of the- Hues. Four fine draught horses could not be rescued, such Was the rapidity of the dreadful element, and perished. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. idANSION-110USE. Yesterday the Captain of the Venus Leith Smack, and the crew, appeared before the LORD MAYOR, in consequence of a summons to attend the investigation of the circumstances of the death of two young men, named John Kinghorn and Robert Boyd. The complaint was made by the father of Kinghorn.— The first witness examined was the steward of the Venus, which belongs to the London, Leith, Edinburgh, and Glas got! Company. His testimony was to the following effect : On the 25th of December they w ere sa ili ng b etween the Inch keith and the Firth, when, at night, the witness heard that a man was overboord, and ran upon deck; they were then going at the rate of 5 knots an hour before the wind; witness heard the deceased, R. Boyd, who was the mate, cry out " Halloo !" in the water. They threw out two casks, one after the other, towards him ; they had no boat at the stern ; they put about as quickly as possible, hut some time elapsed before they could do so; they had no stern-boat, nor had they had any for 11 months, during which the witness had served on board the smack; they had one boat, but it was lashed on the midships, and filled with casks, which formed part of the cargo, and were lashed together ; the boat, therefore, was quite useless, as they could not get it out in less than an hour ; they put back for 20 minutes, but Boyd soon sunk. In answer t o var i ous quest i ons . from the Lord Mayor, the witness stated, that if they had had a stern ,boat, or other boat that was free, th e y cou ld h ave got i t out in five minutes, and Boyd might have been saved. The man at the helm, a sailor, gave evidence to the same effect.— The case of the loss of young Kinghorn was then inquired into. On Tuesday the 27th they were entering the Cockle, in the Yarmouth roads. The first witness stated that they were going under a try-sail, with a heavy sea. At twelve o'clock at noon Kinghorn, in heaving the lead at the quarter deck, fell over. board. The poor lad swam after them, strong, for a long time. —The LORD MAYOR : WM, and did you throw nothing to him P—Witness : No, my Lord, we were in such confusion.— The LORD MAYOR : Did you not then put back ?—Witness : No, my Lord, we were then running through the narrows. We did touch as it was, and for our own lives we could not turn either way. It was a heavy gale; we saw him swimming atter us, strong, for it long time. At last I saw a large wave cover him, anti did not see him again. It shocked us very much, my Lord, to see him lost in that manner, but we could do nothing.—The LORD BlaYon : If you had had a boat then, could you have got it out to save him P—The Cap. fain : My Lord, no boat could have lived in that sea.— lt was then stated that the complainant, Mr. Kinghorn, had been misinformed, when he said Boyd was a good swimmer. The Steward, on being questioned as to the prac tice of the smacks with respect to stern boats, said that some did carry them, that it was the general practice, but he could not he positive that all did.—The Loan MAYOR said, with respect to the second case, it did not appear that any parti colar blame was attributable to those on board, but it was advisable that all such vessels should be provided with something which might be thrown overboard with effect, upon such emergencies. With respect to the first case, it was clear, that had there been a boat free, the poor mate's life might have been saved. So far there was great negligence, and he should dismiss the case, in the confidence that the ves sel would not be allowed to proceed to sea without a proper boat attached to it.—The Captain said he would state the wish of his Lordship to the owners.—lt was stated to the Lord Mayor, that there was among the inventions submitted to the Humane Society, one calculated to be of great service in cases like the present. It was a buoy, which would support one person. !'here was a small piece Of machinery attached to it, by which a fusee was lighted in an instant. This invention was hung at the stern, and when a person fell over at night, the Noce was lighted, and the buoy thrown overboard. The man was then enabled to see it, and those on board would be guided to the spot where he was sustained.—The Lo RD MAYOR said, those vessels which carried passengers ought undoubtedly to be provided with something of that nature. OUILDHALL. Mr. HARMER, the Solicitor, who has in his time defended hundreds of individuals, appeared himself in the character of a defendant, before Mr. Alderman SCHOLET, yesterday.-31r. Harmer, it seems, is the Proprietor of a Sunday Newspaper, called The Disp a t c h , an d the complainant, a Mr. Wood, a printer, stated, th at a new l y- i nvented printing machine, his property, which, b y mere manual labour, throws off a greater number of copies per hour, th an t h ose put in motion by steam engines, had be en set up on Mr. Harmer's premises, and was brought into operation on Saturday last. He applied to Mr. Harmer, for the price of this machine, 4701., on Saturday, and Mr. Harmer making excuses of want of ready money, he went again with stamps in his pocket, to request acceptances for the amount. Mr. Harmer not only refused to give him acceptances, however, but while he was remaining on the premises, to protect his prop erty, came sudden l y on him, seized him by the collar, threw him dowa, bruiztng his arm from top to bottom, and fore( d him out of the home. This was the assault he complained of; he had ' suffered personal injury, , but th e i n j ury to hi s f ee lings was greater th an a ll . Air. Alderman SCHOLEY said,ll r. Harmer was so mu c h a mint of the wor ld , an d h ad h ad suc h great legal exp e ri ence, t h at he felt some difficulty in believing Mr. Harmer could have comm i tted himself in the manner de. scribed. His professional character, however, would not throw an undue protection around him, and believing, from the com plainant's respectable appearance, that he would not have com plained, it' he had not thought lie had ample reason so to do, he would grant a summons for Mr. - 11. - triner'm attendance.— Yesterday, in obedienc e to t hi s summons, Air. Harmer appear. ed, accompanied by Mr. lialloway, the engineer, and with no inconsiderable show of documentary and parole evidence.— After waiting about an hour, a note was brought into the office by a little boy, who said he h a d received it from a gentleman, who was waiting in the vicinity thr an answer. This nose proved to be from Air. Wood, the complAinant, declining meet ing Mr. Harmer, on the ground that a cold had totally de prived hint of voice, and rendered him an unequal match for so noisy an opponent as Mr. liarnier.—Alr. Harmer was, ne vertheless, very anxious to go into his defence, and said he should have pot the question to rest by merely asking Mr. Wood a question or two upon a docoment he held in his hand. The fact was, lie had never bargained with, or become responsible to Mr. Wood for the machine. His contract was with another individual, but Alr. Wood, conceiving he had got him in a (Maroon on Satu r d ay n i ght, endeavoured to ex tort a sum of m oney f rom him, under the threat of stn/Ting injury to working of t h e mac hi ne, and did, in fact, do hint to sonic extent.—Mr. Ald erman - Scilor.Er declined hearing any thing furth er .—Ai r. Rowe, Mr. Har mer ' s p r inter, s,ug gested th e c a lli ng o f a witness to the single fact. that NI , ood brut told one of t h e pressmen to displace a critical part of the machinery, so as to prevent the whole impression of the Die. page/t from being worked off.—The worthy Alderman, how ever, applied him se lf' to sonic other business, and Mr. H. and his friends mired. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. THE By ILIUM° ACT.—Yesterday Messrs. Goding and Co. f p u e s a et re l d to be re fo fu re nd li 3 . they re the celebrated Ale-brewers, of Broad.atreet, Golden-s q uare, ap which the parish :heti paid to a fireman of th e name of Raspberry, in consequence o lV s i t . o D th Y e r p tt ar , l E 3 o o . l.s to t. s j h u e m w e c s a , use why ,of en award made by Mr. Roe. Mr. ALLEY, who attended on the part of Messrs . Oodin ge stated that h e b e li eve d that it was a proc ee di ng un d er the 14t h of feu. 111.. coninionly called the Building Act, and it therefore required the proceedings to be .done by information, instead of summons ; but as Mr. Goding wished to try the merits of the case, he would waive the objection, which would otherwise be: fatal ; but as it Wft3 k common law case, and which prevented an interested witness from giving his evidence, he should feel it his duty to examine the witness before he gave his evidence, to learn if be was interested, as upon his evidence a conviction must take place. Whitmore, a patrol, was then called and sworn—fie denied all interest in the prosecution. lie then deposed that, upon the 20th December, about lialf-paSt 6 o'clock in the evening, he btheld a body of flame come out of one of Mr. Goding's chitn nays, and which was two yards high. Mr. ALLEY—WeII, I must put that down for a curiositY, for it is certainly one wheat' a man swear that a flame WaS just two yards in height. • Mr. Moore, the master brewer, deposed that it was impos 'Bfble that the chimney could be on fire iti that a flame of two yards high could have been seen, for the chimney was from'6o to 65 feet from any fire, but which, with the circumvolutions; was 110 feet ; and that the coals only blazed when first they were put on, and which never exceeded three bushels at a time. • Mr. Huggins, a clerk, and liilr. Trapp, the engineer, de. posed, that it was quite impossible that any' fire vuuld 'have taken place, for the chimney was so very wide, end coetain-' ed such a current of air, that there was never any soot t.) be found.' A Chimney.sw eep was next examined, but his evidenc e. went to prove that there could be ini fire.. AIL ALLEY -4 hope, Sir, it has been proved to your satis faction that there was no fire. I t eo l s i r e sd e c ir o t ? teh t i r ei a 9p r v y v ; ) at f lit o ty r e ir, i o t a : n : 1 :7 1) 1: 1 T e l ri t u n re os a t i p l j o in i si t sta t r i v . eti.::lyvi.itliXn.Ftour:int,itool must u t h l o s n t t ri d ' l :t e rn , Mr. A LLEY--IVe shall appeal. Alr e Die Eit---That 1 shall be very giro, of, the ou are. succes,ful, it will fe; the cause or prevetiting the Magis t rat es ,i to enforce payments on many such cases as this, which . well"' 61 :" cesion the.n. considerabbi satisfaction. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. WINTER CIRCUIT.—KENT.—MarDsToNE, JAN. 2. Before Mr. Baron HULLOCK. The Grand Jury having ignored a bill of indictment against Lieut. MILLET T of his Majesty's ship Ramillies, for the wilful murder of Robert Carpenter, at Lydd, on the 11th of August, by shooting him with a pistol, the Lieutenant (who had been admitted to bail, and now surrendered) remained to be tried upon the Coroner's inquisition. Mr. Baron Ilut.t.ocK intimated that he had great diffuulty in putting the defendant u p on hi s t r i a l, i n consequen ce ' of so objection apparent on the face of the Coßener's The inquisition alleged that the deceased came by his death consequence of the act of " Millet!, Lieutenant on board his Majesty's ship R am illi es ," w i t h out giving the Lieutenant his Christian name, or even averrieng that the Ramillies was within the body of the county. Unless this objection could be removed, he thought he ought not to array the defendant. Mr. ADOLPHUS and Mr. 14 arISHAM, for the prosecution, submitted that there was sufficient certainty in the description of the defendant to put him on his trial. Every intendment must be made in favour of the Coroner's inquisition, Whicb, though traversable, was in th e nature o f j u di c i a l recor d . It was impossible for the Coroner, perhaps, to ascertain the Christian name of the party accused. Here was certainly enough; and it was for the defendant to show that he was not the party In tended. Suppose a prisoner, upon being examined before the Coroner, or a Magistrate, refused to give his Christian name, it would be sufficient to describe him as a person whose name was unknown. Suppose the defendant to be tried and acquitted on, this inquisition, and should afterwards be indicted, he luilfhl plead such acquittal in bar of indictment. Mr. Sergeant ONSLOW and Mr. Kl•rox, for the defendant , were stopped by Mr. Baron 11 ULLocK., who was clearly of opinion, that the description of the prisoner was too uncertain to justify him permitting the trial to proceed. It would have been vertessl to ascertain the defendant's Christian name. This was not like the case where a party refuses to give his name ; for fn sack. cases the refusal and the identity of th e accuse d might be MAO matter of averninent and evidence. Litre there was no refit's' : of that kind suggested, and therefore there was no satisfacterf answer to the objection ; without adverting to any other obje Lions p tti a uo r iu : g n i owttaltisoe record,ordered re(tt rieder ed i ont t o w bt a he s ka st ui tri u : ei e sa n i: t io to n. say, that the .. The ur : d the defend• ant was discharged. Before M r . J us ti ce L ITTLEDALE Win. Russell was indi c t e d f or stealing, at Teston, on ohe Ilth Nov., a pint of al e , va l ue twopence, the pro:petty ot Right lion. Lord Barh am , a N o bl eman distinguished ill "" zeal in the prop ag ati on o f Ch r i st i an k nowledge. Thoprisoner h a d b een occas i ona l ly employed to b rew beet. Lord Barhum's h ouse . H e h a d b een intrusted w i t h t h e key the cellar. Su s pi c i on b e i ng entertained that he made free the beer, he w as watc h e d b y hi s L or d sh i p ' s butler on t he 11t h November, and was t a k e n in t h e act o f d raw i ng a p i nt o f ale.' "' After this he was allowed t o rema i n i n t h e h ouse unt il t he 14th when he went a way. lie was taken up o n th e 17 t h, and on Of: 28th he was committ e d f or tr i a l. On cross-ezarnin a tion, i t a pp eare d t h at t h e N o bl e p r oseettat had been describ e d by a wrong Ch r i stian name ; wheel: the Learned J u d ge di recte d an acquittal. V er di ct -1 "• Guilt J. Cornelius Fitzgerald was indicted for stealing the dead bat_ of Elizabeth Kaye f r o m t h e c h urc h. yar d o f E ast G r i nste ad,"" the tint of December. The prisoner being also indicted for a felony, in see:llo44 , coffin from the same church-yard, he, by the advice of hisC o 6 ° : , sel, pleaded guilty to the misdemeanour, and no evidence v . !. offered in support of the charge of felony. lie was sentenced'', six months' imprisonment. [The Calendar contains about 190 commitments.] CORONER'S INQUEST. .• FATAL ACCIDENT WITH A FOWLING PIECI. On Monday evening an Inquest was taken on the body °` James Henshaw, a fine boy, 13 years of age, at the PloUgh O n ' Hendon. Francis Crane, lab ourer, d epose d as follows :— O n Fri•,l AL t was at work in Mr. S m i t h' s b r i ck-f i eld, as were J. r mes s . ; John Henshaw, when I h ear d a shot fired about two h u ndo:- yards distant. John Henshaw immediately ca ll e d to .00 boy Frank to come to hi m . Y oung 'Mr. S. Smith 1 1 ;g e called him to make haste. I then went towards the 0 1° and met young Mr. S m i t h, w h o desired me to go for a 1: tor. I t o ld bins I did not know where to go; he then sired me to go to the deceased, and not leave hint until be tt for a Doctor, whichhe immediately did. I went to the deceas"; and saw his bowels coming out of a wound in the loge • part of his body. The deceased complained of being cold lwrse-cloths were procured, and put over him, and he was tak o . to the Crown public-house. The deceased inquired after ser', - ral articles belonging to him, a nd th e n went off' into a kind g i - dose, and nciv,r spoke afterwards. Young Mr. Smith Sr peered very much hurt and agitated, and he was very partisli the deceased. John Ilenshaw, brother to the deceased, deposed a 5.7,1: lows : —I am twelv.. Years oil, me brother is thirteen yetni We were down in Mr. Smith's brick ,field, at work. Mr. muel Smith came into the field with a guts, and said he b b ; shot a stalling which lie had in his' , hat. lie put the gun 0 • tweets his legs. and was going to pull ()This hat, when the 84 wont off and shot my brother, who was at the time thel s , - clay into the mill, about two or three yards Mr. Sln t !"2„ g about 22 years old. and I think his clothes caught the t i Vl O of the gun, which caused it to go oft My brother d'a" about a quarter of an hour after he a as shot. drat Mr. Samuel bogeys, •of Kilburn, surgeon, depose , - ro te was called in great haste by Mr. S:rinttel Smith, tutbr,,T A /',, the assistance of the deceased. He found him in a man i bt was alive, and spoke very sensibly. I desired that he "is be immediately taken to this boos; but he died while Oro way here. I have examined the weund, it is but a %Os wound ; the intestines h a d o b tru d e d through it, an d I hal h a'bjnoud'ilti'btshlttleaai tettevwtAhdatesehr.mtahcteelfabc.rnaoe:ininligeolley'llel'oelesivieveirldld'teetnwale'l.Cii)rui:r;e:ullyrdaascdecildrrgyteadlib:t"atine9dll74° returned a verdict accordingly—" Accidentally shot." AMY:RICAN SW F. EPS.— A s an instance of the li :, betty and prosperity of this country, it is stated hi th e P bo i f down (Pennsyvanla Paper, that a Si weep-mmter and hi/ d i. both blacks, arr i ve d in that villa,o from Philadelphia in21 . L7 1 4 . and, after having swept all the (hitimeys requiring sucu o vro many, they took their carriage and returned to the York Advacatt.) COAL, RIARICET, JAN. 4. sr INA Adair s, 37s—Burdon, 38s Rd—Beaumont, 355-''',.„, r e 38s 9d, 395, and 39s 3d—Hebburn Alain, 38s Ild-4 1 9:Tik 374 6d—Killingworth, ‘los—Pclaw, 384—Percy East, Su fi Pontop Windsor, 332- . -Tanfield Moor, 37s 6u.—TownleY: 4 - os N_Vi w llin i s i t s o g n, nd 4O u s ro — w W w y s l , am 3is 131L — Walls d oreen nell ,l l :n salv o —Wal:s End Newniarch, 40s Rd—Walls End Riddell s, Walls End Walker, 384.—Iletton's timall; 20s to 90s Nelham Trader, 38s fld—ranfield Trader, 37s—cowl , —Hartley, 40s Rd—Fawcett Main, 365--Hedwnrth Main , v o —Latubton Primrose, 31s—Montague, 30s-Lypti's MaitiCd, —Russell's Lyon's, 40s 3d—RuNsell's Iletton's Walls ~s 43s Oci—Sealitun 29*—Walls End Cleveland, 28s 61- 11 ti End Hetton, 43s 6d—Walls End !Num. 298—Wail Lyon's, 408—Walls End Lsinbton, 43s 6d—Walls Knd'SP rk w well, 34s 3d—Walls End Stewart's, 43s Cd_shipi at m ket, BR—Ships sold, 38f. BIRTH. On the 31st ult., in Montagu -square, the lady of - Jet. ferson, Esq., of s daughter. MARRIED. sir Yesterday morning, At St. j ani c t ni Church, Colore f ie, Robert Arbuthnot, E.C.8., of the thldstrenm G u a rds, to P.o. riet, third daughter and eabeiless of the late Thomas $ 0 , 9 Esq., of Castlet on -h a ll, R oc hd a li,'Lancashire. hO s On the Stl inst., at Great Yarmouth , No rf olk , C a p t. Pearson, It, N., of St. James's - place , London , to ~i7re youngest daughter of the late John Sayers; Esti., of the: l4 10' D. . On W.Ainesday, the 2 8 th DI ult. E , o the Ilague, in the Ne ther, lands, l'lr. Gideon De in the Nth year of nis age. . tho rY. On Sunday, the Ist inst., at Acton Vicarage, near Suudthe in the 57th year of her age, Elizabeth Proctor, daughter_ tot, lase Daniel Braithwaite, Esq formerly of the General 1 ~ ; oln de. 'O O5 ,Ou the 20th of July, at Hamm, East Indies, 0 f bill 01 , fever, Lieutenant George m. Pilgrim of the 40th regli; ro Der; On Saturday, the 31st ult., aged' 4', at his house 1L.:',, C1 WOl•groV ,e Captain James Ives Edwards, late cottons I ..„stif ,ower of'the Golconda Indiantan, whose loss will be der/IQ" - , hjsfruily circle. Printed and Published for the PROPRIETORS, at the, Urrocx, No. 1 12, Strand, by J. B. CA.IISTAP"'